#white victim complex

[thebeautifuldaughter]

fascinating to watch how hozier speaking Irish in his new music is making some people: 1. fetishise him further and/or 2. make 'fun' jokes about gaeilge/gaelic/'''garlic'''' bc like. babes. i can guarantee you neither of those actions are separable from the lingering impacts of colonialism.

[coconutcows]

Regardless of your thoughts, feelings, or opinions, Curly very much is also a victim of Jimmy’s.

Curly is a victim of Jimmy’s.

Curly being a victim of Jimmy does not however make Anya any less of a victim. They were both different types of Victims, Anya being sexually assaulted and having her sense of safety, personhood, and autonomy violated. Curly was manipulated and belittled by Jimmy pre crash several times, Jimmy also completely twisted what Curly said a few times to warp it to his own perception. They did not have a healthy friendship.

Everyone on the Tulpar was a victim of Jimmy’s by the end.

- Curly in an unhealthy and unbalanced friendship

- Daisuke a victim of Jimmy’s Manipulation

- Swansea became a murder victim

- and of course Anya was a victim of rape and misogyny

But again, other characters being victimized by Jimmy do not detract from what happened to Anya or her Victimhood

[ririnyann]

Tsumugi's Innocence...

I feel like people love to just give tsumugi no autonomy, looking at him as if he did nothing wrong while making natsume the whole big-bad and getting angry at him for hurting their poor little meow meow (mugi) while completely disregarding the fact that tsumugi basically helped "kill" natsume's beloved niisans and had a hand in all the suffering they went through during The War

like sure the hate tsumugi gets from some of the characters feels wildly conflated out of context, but like eichi is introduced to us as a villain really early on + nagisa and hiyori are in reimei/shuetsu, and also introduced ss villains to us in the main story so in a way the characters are rooted against these members of exfine — but tsumugi is a special exception because only a very select few still categorize him in that role he played back then (frankly the eccentrics and even the other exfine members)

but frankly it is deserved in a way, tsumugi was complacent with what exfine did in the war, hell he was even saying he'll shield eichi from any stones thrown at him (well before the last live with wataru happened but yknow)

though going back.. now see he's not introduced to us and even anzu as a villain in the main story now because he's changed !! you could see it in the way he lets his hair grow and even starts wearing his old lenses, and while it can be a quirk of sentimentality it is something that helps tsumugi hold onto the past, even in !-era he still speaks about events he partook as if he was a distant observer

sure natsume helped speed it up through their reconciliation but eventually tsumugi had to learn sooner or later that he couldn't keep running from the past or detaching himself from it. despite how kind and friendly he wants to be just so he feel needed by the people around him, he will inevitably hurt someone and will need to atone for that

[swamp-king1827]

Can confidently say that as a passing trans man (I’m not even really stealth) I absolutely have privilege over cis women lol. I’m a man, people see me as a man, and people treat me like a man. I have privilege in being a man who’s perceived as a man. To deny this is to stick your head in the sand

[dykeofmisfortune]

the novel i'm working on is becoming a feminist lesbian psychological thriller that is an inquiry into mass media and the destabilization of truth and the agency of the working class under capitalism and cycles of violence

[timetravelstudies]

ok ill just say this i was one of the “girls” salò shit was being done to in ms like straight up movie style psychological torture type bullying and tbf i dont tend to use the phrase “female camraderie” in general or esp about myself since im a man now. but if you asked me if I’ve experienced it i would say yes for instance in the countless intimate hushed conversation in bedrooms ive had with cis, straight women (same type of girl that was torturing me in ms) bonding over shared madness inducing experiences such as being in extremely abusive relationships with men. So i wouldnt jump the gun on that one. But whatever

[godblooded]

an unnecessary reminder i will go to bat any day of the week for james sunderland.

[wingsofhcpe]

Just finishes Blood Over Bright Haven, went to check some goodreads reviews, and people are shitting on M. L. Wang and calling her work "white saviour complex" and "coloniser romance", also saying that her work is a copy of RFK.

And this is why I think reading comprehension is dead, because if you read BOBH and THAT was your take from it, I'm pretty sure you read it with your eyes closed.

Anyway, if yall actually want an amazing dark academia and steampunk-y book with nuanced discussion about societal issues, amazing writing, a morally grey female protag and unique kickass worldbuilding, you should read BOBH by M. L. Wang.

[somehwere-between]

White woman makes tyranny about herself because she’s special: more shocking news at 7

[lasdelaintuicionn]

white women on "radblr" are as guilible, pitiful, hypocritical and racist as always, their whole delusional thing about racism being justified by gendered violence will never get tired for them to start chanting at every excuse, but it is very lame to me that i got engaged enough to comment on their discourse bc it was the first thing to show up on my dash

[bauliya]

love how they screenshot your tags and made it look like you said something you never said and also acted as if it wasn't a privelege at all for women to obtain higher education just because their grandmother did it and then the second you explain how limited their world view is they accuse you of being rude, more priveleged than them and now they're continuing to try to make it look like you said things you never said. (also their logic is the exact same as when white people or men say they don't have any (white/male) privilege because they personally have suffered in some way but something tells me sportsbianism wouldn't see it that way)

they admitted to me in the DMs their ancestors were settlers and got free land and college education LMFAO see my latest post uwu

[crazycatsiren]

I have a feeling me and my fellow Christians of color will probably one day make a drinking game out of "every time a white pagan who's never known a day of systemic oppression in their life bitches about Christianity again".

[curtwilde]

I was so pissed when I first saw this but then. I get it. Tell me more about the subaltern Miss Upper-caste bramhin Private convent school to Presidency to Columbia University professor generational wealth pipeline! You must know everything about adivasis of India from your swanky office at Columbia having left the country when you were twenty years old. You must know a lot about whether or not the subaltern can speak, since 1. you benefit from silencing subaltern voices and 2. you have made a career of their oppression.

The entire subaltern studies group were privileged fucks. Also wtf is subaltern. Just one of those useless jargons academics create to gatekeep knowledge. Call it what it is. Dalit. Aadivasi. Or is that too on the nose for you, not very good for the optics huh?